Some participants requested preliminary material before the school. There is nothing compulsory in this list which I compiled from the web or from their mails. It is not meant as the actual content of the courses.

Robert Axtell
  This web site contains pdf versions of 4 important papers by Robert Axtell.
http://www.brookings.edu/index/scholarwork.htm?scholar=Axtell*Robert**

Guido Caldarelli
   The Lectures item on his web site, http://www.guidocaldarelli.com/,  gives access to several presentations and to his book in pdf.

Denise Pumain
Pumain D. (ed) 2006: Hierarchy in natural and social sciences. Springer,
Methodos series

Pumain D. 2004, Scaling laws and urban systems. Santa Fe Institute,
Working Paper n°04-02-002, 26 p.

Sanders L. Pumain D. Mathian H. Guérin-Pace F. Bura S. 1997, SIMPOP: a
multiagent system for the study of urbanism. Environment and Planning B,
24, 287-305.

Pumain D. 1998, Urban Research and Complexity, in Bertuglia C.S., Bianchi
G., Mela A. (eds) The City and its Sciences, Heidelberg, Physica Verlag,
323-362.
  These papers will be later put on a web server.

Dietrich Stauffer
    Opinion dynamics + http://www.lps.ens.fr/~weisbuch/torino.ps
    Formation of hierarchies (Bonabeau model)
    Who pays for my retirement (sociobioeconophysics)
    Competition between languages.
Biology, Sociology, Geology by Computational Physicists
D. Stauffer, S. Moss de Oliveira, P.M.C. de Oliveira, J.S. Sa Martins
Elsevier, Amsterdam 2006, 276 + IX pages.
Nearly 300 pages with more than 150 figures.
ISBN-13: 978-0-444-52146-0 and ISBN-10: 0-444-52146-1. 130 Euro

Gerard Weisbuch
    This review contains most of my lecture series:
http://www.lps.ens.fr/~weisbuch/opidynamics.pdf
My book (french version only !) is at:
http://www.lps.ens.fr/~weisbuch/livre/livcsd.html